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Carla Bruni Tedeschi (born December 23, 1968) is an Italian songwriter, singer and former supermodel.
Contents

1 Biography
2 Family
3 Career
3.1 Modeling
3.2 Music
4 Personal life
5 Relationship with Nicolas Sarkozy
6 Discography
7 References
8 External links

Biography

Born in Turin, she grew up in France from the age of five and later attended boarding school in Switzerland. She eventually returned to Paris to study art and architecture, but left school at 19 to become a model full-time.
Family

She is the step daughter of industrialist and classical composer Alberto Bruni Tedeschi and Italian concert pianist Marysa Borini. Actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi is her sister. Maurizio Remmert, a businessman, has claimed to be her biological father.[1]
Career

Modeling
Heiress to Italian tyre manufacturing Ceat fortune, Bruni signed with City Models at age 19 and her career began. Paul Marciano, president and creative director of Guess? Inc., came across her picture among a stack of composite cards of aspiring models and chose her to model with Estelle Hallyday in ad campaigns for Guess? jeans. Bruni subsequently worked for a number of designers and fashion houses, such as Christian Dior, Paco Rabanne, Sonia Rykiel, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Yves Saint-Laurent, Chanel, Versace, and others.[2] By the 1990s, Bruni was among the 20 highest-paid fashion models, earning $7.5 million a year. While modeling, Bruni dated Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger and Donald Trump.[3]
[edit]Music
In 1997, Bruni quit the world of fashion, to devote herself to music. She sent her lyrics to Julien Clerc in 1999, based on which he composed seven tracks on his 2000 album Si j'étais elle.
In 2002, her debut album Quelqu'un m'a dit, produced by ex lover Louis Bertignac, was released in Europe to great success.[4] Three songs from the album appear in Hans Canosa's 2005 American film Conversations with Other Women. The song "Le plus beau du quartier" was used in H&M's Christmas 2006 commercial.
In 2006, Bruni recorded "Those Little Things" an English-language translation of the Serge Gainsbourg song "Ces Petits Riens", for the tribute album Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited. She participated in the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics, in a parade section paying tribute to the Italian flag.
Her second album, No Promises containing poems by Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Auden, Dorothy Parker, Walter de la Mare, and Christina Rosetti, set to music, was released in January 2007.
[edit]Personal life
“ I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry[5] ”
While living with Jean-Paul Enthoven, Bruni fell in love and started an affair with his son, philosophy professor Raphaël Enthoven, who was at the time married to novelist Justine Lévy, daughter of philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy.[6] Bruni and Raphaël Enthoven had a son, Aurélien, born 2001. They have since separated.
The affair and the subsequent ending of her marriage were the inspiration for Justine Lévy's best-selling book Rien de grave ("Nothing serious"), published in 2004. In the book, Lévy paints a vitriolic portrait of "Paula", the female who steals the protagonist's husband, as "a praying mantis" with "a Terminator smile".[7]
Bruni's former lovers include Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Kevin Costner, Vincent Perez, Donald Trump and former French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius .[8][9] She has said she is easily "bored with monogamy", and "Love lasts a long time, but burning desire - two to three weeks".[9] Jagger's wife acknowledged his affair with Bruni was one of the reasons for the separation.
[edit]Relationship with Nicolas Sarkozy
As of the end of 2007, Bruni was reported to be in a relationship with French president Nicolas Sarkozy[10] after photographers took pictures of them visiting Disneyland Resort Paris, as well as during a vacation in Luxor, Egypt and Petra, Jordan during the Christmas holidays.[11]
During a press conference at Elysée Palace on January 8 (2008), President Sarkozy confirmed their relationship and hinted at a possible wedding.


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Carla Bruni

Nom Carla Bruni Tedeschi
Naissance 23 décembre 1968
Turin, Italie
Profession(s) ex-mannequin
auteur-compositeur-interprète
parolière
Instrument(s) Guitare sèche
Années actives Depuis 2002
Label(s) Naïve Records
Site officiel carlabruni.com

Carla Bruni Tedeschi1, plus connue sous le nom Carla Bruni, est une ex-mannequin et auteur-compositrice-interprète franco-italienne née le 23 décembre 19682 à Turin (Italie). Elle est la compagne du Président de la République française Nicolas Sarkozy.
Installée en France depuis l'âge de 5 ans Carla Bruni a mené une carrière de mannequin de 1987 à 1997 puis s'est reconvertie dans la musique. Elle a écrit l'album Si j'étais elle de Julien Clerc en 2000 puis a sorti son premier album Quelqu’un m’a dit en 2002. Elle a remporté en 2003 la Victoire de la musique de l’Artiste féminine de l’année. En 2007, elle sort son deuxième album No Promises.